PostgreSQL 8.4

Published August 18th, 2009 by Barney Desmond

Good news, everyone! PostgreSQL 8.4 is out, as of several weeks ago. Okay, this isn’t “new” news, but it’s not at all ungood, delay or otherwise. You can catch the feature list here, there’s some good stuff:
http://www.postgresql.org/about/press/features84.html

Of course the real trick is getting more of our customers to use the superior alternative, *le sigh*

As if you *needed* any further convincing to choose Postgres over Mysql, we’ve put together a little comparison for you that highlights some of the most obvious differences for you. :)
http://www.anchor.com.au/hosting/dedicated/mysql_vs_postgres

Oh yeah, using a Redhat OS? You’re short outta luck, you don’t get anything newer than 8.1.11 in the stock release – go use Debian, it’s better anyway. What are you missing out on? Plenty.

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Improving your quality of life with Oracle

Published August 7th, 2009 by Barney Desmond

Not content to take Oracle lying down, we’ve made a couple of small changes on our systems to make life a little saner. The first is a substantial improvement to the default initscript, the second is some shell/environment hacks that should really be done by default. I alluded to these a few posts ago, but hadn’t gotten to publishing them yet.

If you’re a poor sod that has to use Oracle, head over and have a look at the improvements, feedback is always welcome (it might not be perfect, but it’s a lot better). In the interests of not being acquired by Oracle Corp, we’re publishing a diff to the initscript, rather than the full file.

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